"The Swimmer" - Burt lancaster, not Charlton Heston:

The Swimmer (Columbia, 1968)
Director: Frank Perry & Sydney Pollack[uncredited]. Screenplay: Eleanor Perry, from a story by John Cheever. Photography: David L. Quaid and Michael Nebbia. Music: Marvin Hamlisch. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Janet Landgard, Janice Rule, Diana Van Der Vlis, Tony Bickley, Kim Hunter, Joan Rivers. (94 min., Technicolor, 35mm; LC Collection, courtesy Columbia)

Tonight's two films take us on metaphorical journeys through suburbia. In Skaterdater, an Academy Award-winning short subject, several male teenagers blissfully roller-skate around town, until the appearance of a young girl alters the group's dynamics. Skaterdater makes many keen observations, all sans dialogue. Note: our print suffers from color-fading.
The Swimmer is a masterful adaptation of the withering, oblique, sometimes baffling John Cheever short story. On a beautiful Sunday afternoon in suburban Connecticut, Burt Lancaster decides to swim "cross-country," by going from swimming pool to swimming pool. Each stop illuminates past events in Lancaster's life and possible reasons for his demise. Variety perhaps summed the film up best, calling The Swimmer "the story of a moral hangover, with the sobered-up, bewildered man retracing his steps to see what he did.

Posted By: CB41, Oct 31, 12:47:30